Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Bucks election - Mr Disraeli addressing the electors in the County Hall, Aylesbury' NPG D45902

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frederick James Smyth

Disraeli was a Tory statesman, becoming Prime Minister in 1868 and again, for a longer period, in 1874. He was born in London into a wealthy Jewish-Italian family and started out as a solicitor before becoming an eccentric writer who dressed in ostentatious clothes. During his time in government, he introduced legislation designed to improve the conditions of the working class, although its success was limited. He also undertook an aggressive imperial policy, including audaciously purchasing a controlling interest for Britain in the Suez... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.